[G1 General] ei8htohms:
some repsonses

Disclaimer: I am not any kind of expert or developer, just an interested community member trying to decongest this thread a tiny bit at least.

It can be done either way. Most folks seem more comfortable copying an update.zip to their SD and "Alt-S"ing (after a wipe) from recovery mode. You can also unzip the packages and flash the images that way if you prefer, but to me, that's a rather more advanced method.

No reason to suspect that shouldn't be possible, but no one seems to know exactly what the official OTA update from T-Mo will look like yet, so it's impossible to say for sure (yet).

Don't worry about flashing the radio. JF seemed concerned about flashing the radio too many times when he released the JF1.42 and related RC-33 builds with radio updates, but I don't know if he just didn't want to be bothered by the hassle of the double restart when you flash the radio if there is a greater concern there relating to software/hardware/???.

That said, I flashed a wide variety of Dude and Haykuro builds, some of which had the (then) new radio included and some of which I flashed multiple times and didn't run into any troubles. I then flashed the newest radio when the official HTC ADP software was released and also didn't have any trouble. I can't guarantee that all radios are truly fully compatible with all builds as some folks seem to suggest (I rather doubt it), but flashing the radio before or after any of the updates doesn't seem to make any difference really and some folks do seem to be using updated radios with older ROMs and older radios with updated ROMs so...

I say just update the radio like any other update.zip without fear. You can always go back unless you brick your phone. :)

PDF reader does not seem to be included. I'm guessing it could be added from another build, but apparently there are some libraries that have to be added as well, so it's not as simple as just copying and installing the APK. You can doubtless find something about this searching the Haykuro, Dude and Funbacon threads.

It mostly seems to work for me, but is a little laggy and weird at times, and doesn't seem to play nice with Gscript - reboot (my favorite activity). I'd blame it on Gscript except that when I was running the official HTC ADP build with root access (there's instructions in that thread on page 9 is you're using the default "posts-per-page" settings about how to root the official HTC ADP build), Gscript - reboot worked fine. Not sure what this all means together, but I'd guess that the SU Permission app incorporated into this build could be improved/refined somehow.

Mine works great. Shot a short video the other day and emailed it to my mom with no problem.

It does, but it's been quite spotty with all these new builds for me, see below.

None of these builds are "official" except for the HTC ADP build. If you mean "official" in the sense that JF typically only hacks "official" builds, then that explains why he's only put out his version of the ADP build thus far. Not sure to what extent these builds were "built from source" exactly (although some of the Dude's builds apparently/reportedly were built from source substantially), but to be honest I'd be hard pressed to define exactly what that means anyway. :)